Evan Osnos Quotes
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.
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You're awake, you're awesome. Live like it.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
